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PPP vows to enhance BISP amount if voted to powerMULTAN: Former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will enhance Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) amount from Rs 1,000 to 2,000 if voted to power. Addressing the party workers on Saturday late night, he said the Benazir Income Support Programme was benefiting millions of poor families, adding that [...]

Gilani rejects claims Pakistan sheltered Osama Bin LadenLONDON: Prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Pakistan had not been complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden. In an interview with British media, Gilani said the reason Bin Laden was able to live undetected for so long inside Pakistan was down to a universal intelligence failure . Gilani intimated that he didn t […]The post Gilani rejects claims Pakistan sheltered Osama Bin Laden appeared first on Voice of Pakistan.
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Gilani asserts about Pakistan making progressGilani said that Pakistan is making comparatively significant progress among Asian countries and business trade with neighbors and this was his preference during his tenure. He said that `Transit Trade Agreement’ was reached with Afghanistan and efforts were being made to touch Central Asian Republic States. The former Prime Minister shared his past as how [...]

ECP issues notice of Gilani’s disqualificationISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued notification to disqualify Yusuf Raza Gilani as Member National Assembly (MNA) of Pakistan with effect from April 26, 2012. The notification issued by the ECP has also rescinded, as a consequence of disqualification, the notification of the ECP dated March 01, 2008 to the extent of [...]